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Jacques Legrand

1906–1944

Nationality: France
Occupation: engineer

Jacques Legrand (24 October 1906 â 30 June 1944) was a French Resistance leader and a chemical engineer at the Curie Institute in Paris.

Incarceration history

Facilities

Mauthausen concentration camp
Dates unknown

Biography

Jacques Legrand (24 October 1906 â 30 June 1944) was a French Resistance leader and a chemical engineer at the Curie Institute in Paris.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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1901–1975France
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1914–1991France
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1898–1945France
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1910–2007France
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1927–1999France
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External references

Wikipedia
Wikidata (Q6120709)